From the Wilmington Star News: “For a group of politicians who claim they want to strengthen our public schools, the Honorables have a strange way of going about it. In their world, better public schools can be had only by siphoning off students and money into charter and private schools, and by eliminating the cap […]
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Charter Schools Can Bring Big Profi...
From Wilmington area reporter Ann McAdams: WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – The state legislature lifted the cap on public charter schools last year, which used to limit the number of charter schools to 100. Charter schools are essentially privately run schools – funded by public dollars. In our area there are four – Cape Fear Center […]
The Disempowerment of Public School Paren...
The parent trigger has been relentlessly marketed to parents and policy makers as an “empowerment” that enables parents to conduct a petition campaign in their community to fire their school’s staff and change its governance. This has all the rhetoric of democratic activism – a majority of the parents deciding “what’s best” for the education […]